How to roast frozen broccoli?

Broccoli for starters

First courses made from frozen broccoli are healthy and tasty. It makes especially good pureed soups. It goes well with potatoes, carrots, onions and garlic, as well as cauliflower. Here is one option for delicious and easy to prepare broccoli soup.

Ingredients required:

• frozen broccoli - one package,
• medium sized carrot - one,
• onion - one,
• water - half a liter,
• milk - glass,
• garlic - a couple of cloves,
• salt, pepper - to taste,
• butter – 50 g.

Cooking process:

1. Peel and coarsely chop the onion and carrot.
2. Place them along with broccoli and garlic in a saucepan and cover with water. Never use aluminum cookware to prepare vegetable soups - it oxidizes. Cook broccoli soup in an enamel or stainless steel bowl.
3. Add salt and pepper and cook until the vegetables are soft. This takes very little time - about 10 minutes after the water boils.
4. Grind the cooked vegetables with a blender directly in the pan. If this is not possible, then transfer them to a blender bowl, and after chopping, return them to the broth and mix well.
5. Pour in the milk, bring to a boil, add the butter, stir until it dissolves and remove from the heat.

Broccoli salad with sour cream sauce

Broccoli salad is no less simple to prepare, the recipe for which is very simple. But, nevertheless, he is able to please those gathered at the table with his wonderful taste. Moreover, it doesn’t matter whether the cabbage is used fresh or frozen - any cabbage on hand will do.

Ingredients:

• 300 g broccoli
• 300 g cauliflower
• onion
• parsley
• sour cream
• soy sauce
• vegetable oil for frying
• white and black sesame

Cooking method

1. You need to defrost both types of cabbage and separate them into inflorescences.
2. Place the prepared vegetables in a heated frying pan greased with vegetable oil and fry over low heat for about 10 minutes.
3. The onions should be chopped into thin half rings, and the parsley should be chopped with a knife.
4. Soy sauce and sour cream need to be mixed, adding sesame seeds to the resulting sauce.
5. Mix the cabbage with onions and add the prepared sauce.
6. Before serving, the salad can be garnished with parsley.

Broccoli salad with chicken

It is a known fact that lean meat products go well with vegetables. Any housewife who knows how to cook broccoli will be happy to prepare a fairly light salad from this cabbage with chicken. You can also replace the chicken with ham or your favorite sausage - for those who do not burden themselves with diets. For those for whom excess cholesterol is harmful, it is better to take chicken fillet, and always without the skin, then you will get a completely dietary dish.

Ingredients

• 300 g broccoli
• 200 g chicken fillet
• 150 g of any hard cheese
• dill greens
• sour cream for dressing
• 50 g walnuts
• vegetable oil for frying
• salt

Cooking method

1. Rinse the chicken fillet, place it in a saucepan with cold water, add salt, bring to a boil and cook for about 10 minutes until the meat is tender.
2. Then the fillet needs to be cooled and cut into cubes.
3. Rinse the cabbage with water, divide into inflorescences and throw into a hot frying pan greased with oil. Frying should last 8-10 minutes.
4. Use a medium or coarse grater to grate the cheese.
5. Using a knife, chop (not too much) the nuts.
6. Chop the dill with a knife.
7. All that remains is to mix all the ingredients, season with sour cream, and the salad with broccoli and chicken can be served.

Broccoli casserole

It has long been known that broccoli is a very healthy variety of cabbage, so it is desirable for almost everyone to have it in their diet. Broccoli casserole is a very simple dish that does not require fancy ingredients or special effort to prepare. Everything is done simply, but the result is very appetizing.

Ingredients for four servings:

• 400 g broccoli
• 4 chicken eggs
• 120 ml milk
• 3 tbsp. spoons of cream
• 150 g cheese
• 3 tbsp. spoons of flour
• 1 tbsp. spoon of mustard
• 1/2 spoon nutmeg
• pepper and salt - according to taste

Cooking method

1. First, the cabbage inflorescences should be blanched, for which they need to be thrown into boiling water and then boiled for five minutes. Then the boiling water is drained through a colander, and the cabbage is temporarily placed in cold water, which is later also drained.
2. You can beat the eggs with a whisk or blender, add milk and beat again. Do the same after adding mustard.
3. Flour is added to the resulting mixture and mixed thoroughly. At the same time add spices (nutmeg, pepper and salt).
4. Coarsely grate the cheese, two-thirds of which should be added to the dough and stir.
5. Take a baking dish and grease it with butter.
6. Place the cabbage in the mold and pour the mixture over it. Sprinkle the remaining cheese on top.
7. The casserole is prepared at 190 degrees for 30-40 minutes.

After this, the casserole preparation procedure is considered complete. All that remains is to cool it slightly, cut into portions and place on plates. Bon appetit!

How to make broccoli puree?

Anyone who wants to learn how to make pureed broccoli into a soup with cream and cheese will need to stock up on the following:

• 400 g broccoli
• large carrots
• large onion
• fresh dill and basil
• glass of cream
• 120 g processed cheese type “Druzhba”
• salt and pepper

Cooking method

Cream soup is one of the best options when a housewife chooses how to cook fresh broccoli.

1. First you need to prepare the broth, for which you should boil the chicken breast or leg until fully cooked (the broth from the breast will be less fatty). The meat is then removed from the broth.
2. Next, the broccoli should be divided into florets and placed in boiling broth and cooked over medium heat until tender.
3. Remove the cooked cabbage with a slotted spoon and cool slightly.
4. Onions and carrots along with herbs should be sautéed in a frying pan. You can cut them coarsely first, because then everything will turn into puree.
5. The meat should be separated from the bones and divided into small pieces, then it will still be chopped as well.
6. Grind the sauteed vegetables and meat in a food processor until a homogeneous puree is obtained. This is how you get creamy broccoli soup.

How to cook broccoli in batter?

Before cooking broccoli in batter, prepare the following ingredients:

• head of broccoli
• glass of vegetable oil
• 3 tbsp. spoons of olive oil
• 2 eggs
• 150 g wheat flour
• a teaspoon of sugar
• salt and ground black pepper

Cooking method

1. Wash the cabbage and separate it into florets, then throw it into salted boiling water and cook for about 3 minutes.
2. Drain the cooked cabbage in a colander and cool.
3. To prepare the batter, beat the eggs, then add flour, sugar, salt, pepper, olive oil and a little boiled water.
4. Place the cooled cabbage in the batter, making sure that the pieces are coated with it on all sides.
5. Heat a frying pan with vegetable oil and place cabbage dipped in batter on it.
6. The readiness of the cabbage will be indicated by the appearance of a golden brown crust on its surface.
7. There will be excess fat on the cabbage, and to get rid of it, you need to place a napkin on the dish, which will take away the excess. All that remains is to place the cooked broccoli in batter on plates and enjoy.

How do you cook broccoli? Do you prefer frozen or fresh vegetables? Tell us about it in the comments.

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Broccoli on the side

Frozen broccoli can be used to make delicious and original side dishes. Children will love broccoli and cauliflower puree. To do this, boil a bag of broccoli and cauliflower in salted water and chop with a blender. This dish can be given even to very young children.

The second side dish option is with garlic chips. It will require ingredients:

• broccoli – 400 g (you can take a pack of frozen broccoli),
• garlic – 4 cloves,
• olive oil – just a little for frying.

Cooking process:

1. Boil the broccoli in salted water for about five minutes (the main thing is not to overcook), dip in cold water for a minute, remove with a slotted spoon and let drain.
2. Finely chop the garlic and fry it in a little olive oil.
3. Remove the garlic and fry the broccoli in some garlic oil.
4. Serve sprinkled with garlic chips.

Video on how to fry cabbage in breadcrumbs

Another batter option. Already without eggs, but with breadcrumbs and milk. Completely different taste. Exquisite I would even say. An excellent recipe for losing weight gourmets.

Another delicious snack option. Oddly enough, such cabbage can even be served with beer, especially if you cook it with the addition of spicy ingredients.

• Broccoli – 250 g
• Eggs – 2 pcs.
• Garlic – 4 cloves
• Breadcrumbs – 55 g
• Semolina – 20 g
• Vegetable oil – 150 ml
• Salt pepper

With crackers

• Wash the broccoli, separate it into florets and cook in salted water for about 5 minutes. Then we place the vegetable in cold water, this way we will preserve the structure of the cabbage and after cooking it in breadcrumbs, it will have a pleasant crunch.
• Beat eggs with salt and spices, which you can choose according to your taste.
• Peel the garlic, finely chop it with a knife and add it to the egg mixture.
• In another container, mix crackers and semolina.
• Pour oil into a saucepan and heat it until smoke begins to form above it.
• We dip each inflorescence into the egg mixture, and then into the mixture of semolina and crackers. Place in hot oil and fry until a golden crust appears on the vegetable.
• Excess fat can be removed using a paper napkin, on which you need to place the breaded cabbage.

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Broccoli for breakfast

Broccoli can be served as an independent dish. One of these options could be an original omelet - ideal for breakfast. To do this, you need to prepare a mixture as for a regular omelet: eggs, milk and flour with salt and pepper. After this, boil the broccoli until half cooked, place it in the cake pans, florets side down, and pour over the egg mixture, leaving a small space to the edge as the omelette will rise. Bake in the oven. Then remove from the molds and place on plates. Children will be delighted with such an unusual breakfast. Each omelette resembles a mushroom.

Cooking hearty hot broccoli dishes in the oven

Irina Pavlina

Food section editor

Broccoli can be used to make many delicious dishes. Frozen cabbage is suitable for some, but for baking in the oven we recommend using fresh cabbage, with elastic stems and inflorescences. Yellowing areas and limp leaves are a sure sign that the broccoli is starting to spoil.

We also recommend keeping the baked broccoli in the refrigerator for no more than a day or two. Although cabbage will not spoil, its taste will deteriorate significantly if stored for a longer period of time.

Broccoli for lunch

An excellent option for a second course would be pasta with ham and broccoli. For this we need the following ingredients:

• broccoli cabbage – 400 g,
• pasta – 400 g,
• ham – 200 g,
• young onion – 50 g,
• cream – 200 ml,
• hard cheese – 100 g,
• olive oil – 50 ml,
• salt, pepper, herbs - to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Boil the pasta and rinse it.
2. Boil the broccoli and place it in cold water for half a minute.
3. Fry finely chopped onion, ham, cut into strips, broccoli.
4. Combine the cream and finely grated cheese in a saucepan and bring to a boil until the cheese has dissolved.
5. Dip pasta and cabbage with ham into the sauce, heat, place on plates and serve, garnished with herbs, such as a sprig of basil.

How to deliciously cook broccoli in batter

A fairly familiar option to everyone. When vegetables, or any product in general, are fried in batter. Some people prefer to call this method tempura. It's all about the dough, it is this that will give our ingredient fluffiness and its own special taste. And if we add hot red pepper to the liquid mass, we will get a wonderful spicy snack.

• Broccoli - 400 gr.
• Wheat flour - 1 tbsp.
• Corn flour - 1/2 tbsp.
• Baking powder - 1 tsp.
• Sparkling water - 250 ml.
• Salt to taste
• Paprika-1/4 tsp.
• Red hot pepper - 1/4 tsp.
• Curry-12 tsp.
• Vegetable oil (for frying) - 900 ml.

• Classic yogurt (not sweet) - 180 gr.
• Olive oil - 3 tablespoons
• Salt and sugar - to taste
• Garlic - 2 cloves
• Parsley - a couple of sprigs

1. Let's start preparing the batter. Pour two types of flour, baking powder, salt, red pepper, paprika and curry into a deep bowl. Mix everything to get a homogeneous mixture.

Add a small amount of water and stir the mixture. But we don’t beat it; the entire process of preparing the batter must be done by hand. If there is not enough liquid, add a little more. As a result, we should get a dough consistency like pancakes.

2. Now that the dough is ready, you can start preparing the cabbage. We wash the broccoli, separate it into florets and wash it again. Place in boiling water and blanch for 1 minute.

After the time has passed, remove and place on a towel. Our task is to drain all excess liquid from the inflorescence. Otherwise, during frying, it will affect the process, and the boiling oil will begin to splash.

Let's move on to frying the cabbage. Pour vegetable oil into a saucepan. It is advisable to choose a deeper frying pan. We wait until it warms up. To check if the fat is ready, drop a drop of the prepared dough into it. If it floats to the surface and hisses, then you can start frying.

Dip the broccoli into the prepared dough, patting it on all sides. Raise the inflorescence above the bowl and wait until the excess liquid mass drains. Then carefully dip the cabbage into the oil. Cook until golden brown, turning the inflorescences periodically with a fork.

Place the finished cabbage in the dough on napkins. In order for the paper to absorb excess oil.

3. Let's start preparing a delicious sauce. It will complement the broccoli in batter.

We put yogurt in a bowl; we use only the classic yogurt, which is not sweet. Add salt and sugar to taste. We peel the garlic cloves and pass them through a press or grate them. Add chopped parsley to this. Mix everything well.

The finished sauce must be kept for 10-15 minutes. This way it will become more rich and piquant.

Place the fried cabbage in batter on a plate. And served with amazing sauce. You can decorate the plate with fresh herbs. Broccoli cooked according to this recipe turns out crispy. The main thing is that the inflorescences are not entirely small.

How to roast frozen broccoli?